NEW NOVEL SET AT CHEYENNE RODEO: One-time Cheyenne resident Lily Burana caused a stir with her first book, Strip City, her personal account of life on the road as a stripper. She now has debuted her first novel, Try, which her publisher, St. Martin’s Press, calls “a western romance.” On the web site, Lily says that she wrote most of the novel while a resident at WYO’s Ucross Foundation. In the book, Daryl Heatherly, a promising young artist, returns to her native Cheyenne “hoping to find the place she fits in.” She then “rubs up against J.W. Jarrett, a world-champion rodeo cowboy and old-school Southern gentleman.” Fireworks ensue. The novel has garnered advance praise from novelists Madision Smartt Bell and Elizabeth Gilbert. W.K. Stratton, author of Chasing the Rodeo and Backyard Brawl, has this to say: “Rodeo and romance have gone together ever since vaqueros in New Spain first tried their luck roping and riding while smitten senoritas looked on. Lily Burana's novel Try is a spicy, engaging love story that captures the sexual tension between women and modern rodeo cowboys better than any other novel I've read. Lily did her homework. Give Try a try -- you'll like it." The novels’ sizzling cover artwork might even transform a few male bookstore browsers into “western romance” readers.
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